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The PS10 Solar Power Plant is the world's first commercial concentrating solar power tower operating near Seville, in Andalusia, Spain. The 11 megawatt (MW) solar power tower produces electricity with 624 large movable mirrors called heliostats. It took four years to build and so far cost €35 million (US$46 million). PS10 produces about 23,400 megawatt-hours (MW·h) per year, for which it receives €271 (US$360) per MW·h under its power purchase agreement, equating to a revenue of €6.3 million per year.
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The mirrors were delivered by Abengoa, the solar receiver was designed and built by Tecnical-Tecnicas Reunidas, a Spanish engineering company; and the Solar Tower was designed and built by ALTAC, another Spanish engineering and construction company. Each of the mirrors has a surface measuring 120 m² (1,292 square feet) that concentrates the sun's rays to the top of a 115 meter (377 ft) high, 40-story tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located. The turbine drives a generator, producing electricity. The PS10 is located 20 km west of Seville (which receives at least nine hours of sunshine 320 days per year, with 15 hours per day in mid summer). The solar receiver at the top of the tower produces saturated steam at 275 °C. The energy conversion efficiency is approximately 17%.
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An unusual collection of photographs from the archives of crime news of the New York Daily News newspaper made in the style of “then and now”. Added description, references to the scene and in some places the original photo to make it clearer.
1. March 19, 1942. In the photo Edna Egbert mother soldier who went to the front, and from which there was not a single news since then. Deciding that his son was killed, she was mad with grief and went to the cornice of the building to jump off. But to do this was not easy, and she was left standing outside in silence looking at the gathering crowd of onlookers. After some time, the police pulled the bottom of the network, and the two officers got out of the windows of neighboring apartments to persuade her to go back inside. When a persuasion failed, they tried to just push it down. Instead of falling, Edna began to shout and fight back.
July 1, 1928. In the photo the body of Frankie Yale, one of the most influential gangster in Brooklyn at the time. Sitting at the bar, he received a phone call from an unknown, who reported that his wife something happened. Yale jumped into his new Lincoln sedan and drove home. At an intersection next to him stood a Buick with four armed men tried to break away and Yale. But was caught, shot, lost control and crashed into a residential building near Borough Park.
January 11, 1951. In the photo a large fire almost destroyed the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the Brooklyn neighborhood Karrols Gardens. Later the church was restored.
July 28, 1958. Just got out of jail a resident of New York decided not to pull, and immediately return to his usual craft – hijacking cars. The car he stole something, but it is far to go and could not. At the corner of Pacific and Classon he exceeded the speed limit, lost control and crashed into a pole. The day went by routine: prison-liberation-theft alarm, and again a prison.
July 28, 1958. Just got out of jail a resident of New York decided not to pull, and immediately return to his usual craft – hijacking cars. The car he stole something, but it is far to go and could not. At the corner of Pacific and Classon he exceeded the speed limit, lost control and crashed into a pole. The day went by routine: prison-liberation-theft alarm, and again a prison.
July 22, 1943. 105-mm self-propelled gaubitsa M7 “Priest” (priest) drives past City Hall on the way to the building of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, where it was exhibited as part of the military exposure.
December 17, 1960. Picture taken on the day after the terrible plane crash, when the sky above New York faced airplanes United Airlines, Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines, flight 266. The wreckage of one of the planes fell on a residential area of ??Brooklyn Park Slope and destroyed many homes. As a result, almost all of the passengers were killed airliners (128 people) and 6 people on the ground. The only survivor was 11-year-old boy Stephen Balcem, who fell into the snow. Unfortunately, he lived only one day and suddenly died of pneumonia. At that time it was the biggest crash in the history of civil aviation.
Photos made by Life magazine photographer with almost the same angle.
April 4, 1959. 3-year term in March Cartagena was hit by a car when rolled around on a tricycle in front of his house. Pictured pastor comforts her older sister. On the brick wall of the building still have the chips and scratches left from that tragic incident.
February 26, 1961. Fire in the buildings of the old fish market. The buildings are still standing, although some of them were a few floors below.
July 30, 1950. Police officers guard the body detective Michael Dower, who committed suicide.
September 25, 1961. Josephine Deksidor keeps bleeding Lenaresa James, who was gunned down by her jealous husband on the stairs of a residential building in the Bronx.
February 16, 1958. A serious fire in the building of Elkins Paper & Twine Co. claimed the lives of six firefighters. The building was completely destroyed, and his remains were taken down immediately after the remains recovered from the ashes of the dead.
Since the 1980s, the small coastal plain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Almeria, has developed the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares. Several tons of greenhouse vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchinis are produced here annually. More than half of the Europe’s demand for fresh fruits and vegetables are grown under the plastic shades, fuelling the province of Almeria's economy by $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
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But 35 years ago, this region in the southeast of Spain was dry and arid, and desert-like, receiving an average of 200 mm of rainfall a year. In fact, Spaghetti western films were once shot here, because the land was so dry and barren. But with imported soil and fully hydroponic systems that drip-feed chemical fertilizers into grow-bags, over the last 35 years, the area has been intensively used for agriculture.
A mix of thousand of smallholders and large companies tend the crops inside the plastic greenhouses. Temperatures can reach more than 45 degrees Celsius inside. Many Spanish workers find it too hot to work and the conditions too brutal so the sweat-houses are staffed mainly by legal and illegal immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One hundred thousand immigrants are thought to work in the greenhouses and many believe it is the lack of workers-rights that help the businesses to be profitable. Many ‘farms’ have no toilets and women are often forced into prostitution. Some workers are also sold contracts to work, which have to be repaid to their bosses. The Network for The Promotion of Sustainable Consumption in European Regions, estimate that workers are paid between 33 and 36 Euros per day.
Almeria's sea of white-roofed greenhouse is so vast that researchers from the University of Almeria have found that by reflecting sunlight back into the atmosphere, the greenhouses are actually cooling the province. While temperatures in the rest of Spain have climbed at rates above the world average, the local temperature has dropped an average of 0.3 degrees Celsius every 10 years since 1983.
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